Dec 2011: The one where they sit on potatoes. And turn TWO!

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New fred! Roll up roll up, potty adventures and birthdays galore!

Oh she conked out. Finally. Tantrum lasting two and a half hours basically. Ugh.

Xmas is not good for toddlers clearly...sugar, excitement, lots of toys and people and it's all too much for LOs that need routine.

I hope you're having a bloody enormous gin mopsy, and that someone else is home soon to take her when she wakes.

Ha ha northern. I am indeed having a gin. Mid afternoon! I make no apologies

(Tanqueray ten and Fevertree elderflower gin)

I also ate nine after eights in a row and feel v sick now. Oops.

They are in cahoots!!!

DS grabbed my arm whilst I was having a cup of tea earlier and burnt my hand then he was running around fell over and bashed his head on a wall

Been to the local shops and got a cracking regatta puddle suit for DS reduced £30 to £15. Got his Thomas calendar for his room too.

Having drinks with the neighbours tonight ........gin o click

Awoken from nap. Tantrums started immediately. Gah. Times a million. What can be wrong with her?

Teething? I can finally see ds back molar pocking though.

Sugar comedown? All ds asks for is choclut and cake and bisc.

We are currently playing with this. Best. Toy. Ever.

Teething? We have red cheeks and night waking and off food so it makes sense but I've had enough of the grumps. We've been skipping the naps for a week or so now but gave f one today to see if the night waking is because he is overtired. I hope it is because I'm on my own all weekend and running on empty.

Have the serious grumps about everyone and everything. Just feel like having a bit if a weep most of the time and might indeed do that after the boys are in bed. Grrr

Suspect teeth. She has v hard gums on her final two teeth that are due. Or else she is coming down with sth. No child has tantrums for that long without good reason.

And hinky you're not alone. I've been close to tears several times today.

Oh mopsy poor you (though it does make me feel a little better that it's not just me and hope it does you too) it will get better and I know this is true as I'm on ds2 but remember how I felt with ds1. Lack of sleep makes it all harder to tolerate and to rationalise. Surely it will feel better in the morning

It's a thread cohort thing..... dS has been teething the last few nights too, very unsettled at times with a red cheek and lots of clinginess/stropping tantrums... Then half an hoir later he is fine. No fever, quite chewy. I'm pretty sure it's molars (so mopsy if she does it again try 5mls of ibuprofen syrup)....

And DH is highly approving of your gin habits, all of you! We have no Tanqueray ten, just the regular stuff... Can't justify another gin, we already have nine and I've got my eye on some monkey 47 for next one . Ahem. Gin tonorrow maybe....

northern, if it's any consolation, DS can now UNDO his stairgate... We got a replacement after ours broke and the new one is a spring operated job. IHe copied us opening it and somehow can squeeze hard enough to open it... So he comes to see us in the morning. It does mean we wake up when we hear it open so it's more an alarm than anything!

They are def in secret talks again. Been up with Sky for hr & half. Resulted in 5ml calpol, cuddle & being wrapped in my dressing gown and fx she's given in and gone back to sleep.

Bloody five bloody thirty a bloody m is not, repeat not, an acceptable time to get up over the Xmas holidays DS, OK?! Dunno if our (childless) visitor knows what he's letting himself in for coming to stay for NYE...

Glad you had that gin mopsy... am jealous of the T. ten, there wasn't even the normal Tanq at our supermarket, had to make do with their own brand posh stuff, which is fine (DP refers to it as 'swilling gin', ahem).

Sounds like you/Mini M are suffering though- definitely squirt some para/ibu down her as soon as she starts up, see if that makes a difference!

How're you feeling now hinky? I think it can be really theraputic sometimes just to have a cry (I like to indulge in a ten-minute side order of self pity, mainly on the grounds that no-one else will feel sorry for me so I'm going to...) so if you did I hope it helped. Crappy timing with your DH going off on a do. Is there anyone that can take f so you can have a nap with no. 2?

I'm looking forward to being in the new place aethel where we'll be on the same floor as DS and he can come wandering in... sure I won't be saying that when it's a reality, but still!

DP and I had our own mini-Xmas last night, as we actually get very little time to spend together over the holidays- a roaring fire, lots of cocktails, and the football House is still lovely and warm as a result.

That sounds lovely Northern.
The Boi woke at 5:30. I just dragged him out of his cot and brought him in with us. Any sleep routine has flown out of the window. He won't settle without a fight, and it's usually around 9pm. It is no fun at all. And I have to do it as DH still can't pick him up or do anything.
DH's sister and her family are arriving at 3 for the night. (6ppl)
Before then I need to get to the tip and tackle a mountain of ironing.
Now I am being summonsed to help to help with a Thomas jigsaw.

Sorry to hear about so many crap night sleeps/frazzled mummies DS was a bit of a terror over Xmas dinner wouldn't eat shouting to get out of his chair very unlike him

Oi I wish DS would do jigsaws he wants them out of box but then just runs the pieces over with his ride on car.....every bloody time. Strange thing is he can do them on the iPad (when he gets near it).

We off to Cornwall today for a week 6 adults 3 kids in a 4 bed barn conversion in middle of nowhere, lots of gin and chocolate baileys, rain and lack of Internet. Am a bit apprehensive as last time we went away 1 couple threw a wobbly and went home early it's taken 4 years for us to try again . Also tomorrow would have been my due date if i hadnt MCd in may and 1 of the group is 6mo pg will be hard tomorrow made harder by fact i dont like DH atm he's arsey and impatient. Am sure it's not helped because of what tomorrow represents but we are still miles apart on the 2nd child issue and I hate him for it.

I expect signal will be non existent down there so Happy new year when it comes hope to be on sometime over the next week.

(((((Hug)))))) for figgy. Good luck for the low-tech week (unless you get there and discover wi-fi, many rental places have that nowadays!)

Am trying to picture couple-fireworks, all sounds a bit Eastenders!

Visiting auntie today. Look in food section for my recent dilemma regarding canapaaaaaaays if you fancy a story to read!.......

Have a fab time Figgy.
Try to forget MC dates. They are just dates/numbers/days. It happened. It's past. Easier said than done, I know.

Hope you've a lovely time figgy. The tantrums continue today. Nothing wrong with Minimopsy, she is just trying to assert her will. V tiring.

Belated Happy Christmas everyone. We had a reasonably good time of it, though DH and I are now not speaking, after a horrendous row yesterday, which everytime I think of it makes be feel we should be separating - it is not healthy for us or the kids, but I am not sure I can really face that route.

Freya was a bit bemused by Christmas really and not that into the whole present thing. DS on the other hand was almost too into presents and ended up annoying me by sounding like a spoilt brat. Christmas eve and Christmas day itself were good but by boxing day when we had a mass gathering of my family my two were all out of routine and a pain and DH had a cold so sat on his arse all day and did nothing except make a few snide comments about me to his BILs, spoiling my day with my family once again.

Today I took DS and F to the pantomime, by myself. Ds loved it and was so good. F was spell bound for about the first hour but I didn't see much of the second half as I was chasing her round and then took her out to the foyer - leaving DS in there on his own. She almost managed to get up on the stage twice too before I grabbed her. DH should have come but chose not to.

Currently printing off boarding passes for skiing on Monday. We are taking DS but not F - she is staying with grandparents for the 4 days break. Not even sure if DH is coming at the moment! Oh what a mess...

Hugs to figgy and everyone else having a time of it at the moment.

We have wifi wooooo

DS just fallen asleep on sofa dh and his mate gone to pub, preggo mate gone bed an hour ago their 6yo bed at 8 DS has refused to sleep in the cot here we pushed a single against a wall and made a bed guard for him but he's refused to sleep I'm that too. God knows how going to get him in his bed tonight and other nights especially when the 4yo comes along tomorrow night and they're all in the same room.

Watching funniest moments of the year between this and eastenders I might be a bit in love with Danny dyer

Sorry to hear things shit jiggle same here told dh when we get home I'm leaving and I bloody meant it at the time. of course calmed down now but he's driving me crackers

Help yourself, laidies...

Is haddock at Christmas called salmon?
Sorry to hear about idiot DH's.
the LO's sound like they're in it together, conspiring against us again. BOi has been a little terror. He thinks that being naughty is funny. He smacks me at least 20 times a day. He cries. He won't stay in his own bed. It's tiring.
I got a 2 hour break yesterday. I went out to work in the garden. I broke my back but loved the peace!
I read a book about composting (a Xmas present) so now have it all planned out. I have much more to do in the garden still, so I'm hoping I'll get some more time before work restarts.
This is the first year that I have absolutely no plans for NYE.rather depressing, isn't it?!